Timber Flute Festival 2009

If you do not post - folks do not visit, right? We'll I am stopping by to post and I hope someone else will stop by too - it has been too long and the new dog has been keeping my busy (think Marmaduke!) but I am better at sharing the news than making excuses - SO...

June is already here and Timber Flute Festival is approaching. While there remains space available it looks like another great year planned and I wanted to share a few highlights with you.

When the 3rd Annual Tiber Flute Festival comes to the RCCAC on June 21 through the 26 there will be more than just music. A returning feature that on one should miss is the return of the Brown Bagatelles sessions during the festival. These fun and informative sessions are offered Mon-Thurs. at 12:30pm.
The lunchtime sessions include; Mon – South American & Spanish Music with Julio Alves & Wendell Dobbs; Tues – Katy McClane, The Arabic Ney Flute; Wed - The Aural Tradition in Music with Grey Larsen and Ron Warren; Thurs – Flute Making Mysteries with John Gallagher & Colin St. Martin. Bring your lunch and enjoy these open to the public sessions.
Other public venues include; Mondays Contra Dance at 8pm; Tuesday concert at 8pm featuring classical & baroque flute music with Colin St. Martin, Wendell Dobbs and members of the US Army Fife and Drum Corps; Thursday concert at 8pm featuring Irish and Native American flute music with Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Ron Warren and Janice Torres; Friday free performance at 3pm by all festival participants.

All evening concerts require an admission fee for non-festival participants

Wednesday evening will offer the regular Pickin’ In the Park session at Elkins City Park with the twist being that flute players from the festival will be joining area musicians. It is sure to be a unique evening and one you’ll want to plan to attend as well.

So if you are thinking about coming out for a peice of eth festival you could still do that as well on a day rate - and plan to catch concerts and lunchtime sessions that you are in town for to maximaize your visit. We'll we doing a lot of flute playing and would welcome our WV folks to take advantage of the opportunities open to the public.

July 11th the RCCAC opens a traveling Smithsonian exhibit called New Harmonies and this will provide many great music opportunities for summer. Native American Flute will be included and I'll have more about that in another post.

Review of Timber Flute Concert 3/3

Well folks it was a wonderful performance.
Wendell Dobbs, Linda Wolfersheim, & Elizabeth Ford playing wooden flutes
Julio Alves playing classical guitar
Robert Psurny Jr. singing tenor

This was a two hour extravaganza of music attended by several from our flute circle, and many regional residents on yet another cold & snowy evening in Elkins. The flute playing was my favorite by bias but the many arrangements and composers gave me a new appreciation and education in 18th century music and technique. This event raised funds for the First Annual Timber Flute Festival which will be held June 24-29 in Elkins this summer. Wendell Dobbs, Colin St. Martin, and Grey Larsen will be instructors for this event and the instruments of Flute maker & local resident, John Gallagher will be featured. Hearing some of this type of playing Saturday night definitely whets your appetite for what is in store this summer.

Stay tuned for details but the WV NAF Circle has agreed to do a demonstration of Native Style Flute at this summers event and we are excited to share the instrument and learn from one another music.

You can learn more about Timber Flute Festival from the link at your right.
We will meet Saturday March 10th from 1-3pm in the great hall at Randolph County Community Arts Center. We hope to see you there, bring any instrument you'd like!